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Oct 28, 2025
In late August, The Cut’s Book Gossip newsletter asked whether the braided essay form—creative nonfiction that blends disparate topics and weaves...
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Oct 8, 2025
Chris Kraus thinks she has the least addictive personality of anyone she knows. “I love having one-and-a-half glasses of wine at the opening. As soon as I start to feel...
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Sep 24, 2025
Sitting in the window seat of a coach bus in Austria, heading west to Salzburg from Bad Ischl, I read a contemporary novel about a dinner party among artists in downtown...
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Sep 15, 2025
In the fall of 1976, a mysterious mass illness suddenly struck the city of Los Angeles—or at least that was the only plausible reason in the mind of Canada’s...
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Sep 11, 2025
The new season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, a melodrama about a love triangle set in a fictional beach town, opens with a classic dilemma. Isabel (played by Lola Tung), a...
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Aug 12, 2025
At some point, I stopped wanting to open the Google Doc. For months I was obsessed with a publicly accessible text file about 60 pages long: little first-person abstractions written...
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Jul 30, 2025
Every generation gets The Bell Jar they deserve. While not all on the level of Sylvia Plath’s prose, young novelists remain perennially interested in writing...
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May 21, 2025
In October 2021, I attended a literary reading that was also a twilight moment. Like many things, I wouldn’t understand the importance of it until after it passed: Megan Boyle,...
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May 14, 2025
According to some interpretations of Vedic cosmology, our solar system has reached its fourth and final age. We’ll experience gradual decline in the form of social alienation,...
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Apr 10, 2025
Hollywood made me think that a conference is supposed to be sexy. All across America, I thought, business travelers were wearing suits, ordering room service, and bumping into...
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Mar 19, 2025
I’m meeting someone at a bar and she says she’s the one in the booth reading Anna Karenina. Indie-lit darling Shy Watson is tackling Infinite Jest for...
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Jan 6, 2025
ONCE A DAY, at a random time, my laptop webcam photographs me. A masochistic ritual that still startles: to open a new Google tab and see my own face. I dash off a response to the...
Oct 28, 2025In late August, The Cut’s Book Gossip newsletter asked whether the braided essay form—creative nonfiction that blends disparate topics and weaves...
Oct 8, 2025Chris Kraus thinks she has the least addictive personality of anyone she knows. “I love having one-and-a-half glasses of wine at the opening. As soon as I start to feel...
Sep 24, 2025Sitting in the window seat of a coach bus in Austria, heading west to Salzburg from Bad Ischl, I read a contemporary novel about a dinner party among artists in downtown...
Sep 15, 2025In the fall of 1976, a mysterious mass illness suddenly struck the city of Los Angeles—or at least that was the only plausible reason in the mind of Canada’s...
Sep 11, 2025The new season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, a melodrama about a love triangle set in a fictional beach town, opens with a classic dilemma. Isabel (played by Lola Tung), a...
Aug 12, 2025At some point, I stopped wanting to open the Google Doc. For months I was obsessed with a publicly accessible text file about 60 pages long: little first-person abstractions written...
Apr 10, 2025Hollywood made me think that a conference is supposed to be sexy. All across America, I thought, business travelers were wearing suits, ordering room service, and bumping into...
Mar 19, 2025I’m meeting someone at a bar and she says she’s the one in the booth reading Anna Karenina. Indie-lit darling Shy Watson is tackling Infinite Jest for...
Jan 6, 2025ONCE A DAY, at a random time, my laptop webcam photographs me. A masochistic ritual that still startles: to open a new Google tab and see my own face. I dash off a response to the...